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Zylithan · #1 September 28th, 2007, 03:38 PM

Yeah, it's terrifying to think about elections and the intelligence/ignorance of the electorate.

Here's a quote I like from Churchill

"Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried."

I'm not against democracy, I just wish people would spend as much time learning about issues and candidates as they do learning about pokemons and Britney Spears.

Yeah, sorry for being off-topic.

Evil Dave · #2 September 28th, 2007, 04:16 PM

Democracy is on-topic. EA Arco is Classical Greece, which had democracy, and EA Ermor is the Roman Republic. Maybe those nations should get special "politics" events.

Folket · #3 September 28th, 2007, 05:11 PM

MA Ermor and LA Ermor are also the Roman Republic... after the republic.

There was democracy in classic Greece, but to my knowledge that was only in Athen.

BigandScary · #4 October 1st, 2007, 11:05 PM

Sparta was another noted democracy, although theirs had more in common with the Roman Republic than the Athenian democracy. Also, Zylithan, if that is your opinion than I would suggest reading some of the works of John Stewart Mills, who was famously against what he called "Tyrany by majority."

Kristoffer O · #5 October 2nd, 2007, 12:12 PM

> Sparta was another noted democracy,

??? they were ???

My spartan skills are a bit limited, but I've never heard anyone calling them a democracy before.

I would have placed Rome as a middle ground between Athen and Sparta, but I might be wrong.

Warhammer · #6 October 2nd, 2007, 01:20 PM

Sparta was an oligarchy that had democratic elements in it. I think they had an elected king that was voted on by the elders of some number of families or something.

Kristoffer O · #7 October 2nd, 2007, 01:37 PM

That doesn't sound very democratic